I’m sorry but what a stupid comment. Why would he care about that young player who is taking a penalty against him in a world cup final penalty shootout? His whole job is to win the World Cup for his nation and put off the oppo player so that that young player misses the penalty and guess what? He did put him off and made him miss the target.
It’s only a stupid comment if you don’t care about the rules of the game and sporting integrity. It’s the same as all the diving and rolling that goes on too. ‘Whatever it takes to win’ goes against the spirit of the game.
His job is to be a goalkeeper and come up trumps in big moments. You could argue all day about how far that can go, but I think it makes him an asshole.
It’s not old-fashioned to think that glorifying that type of behaviour will be to the detriment of the game. It’s certainly not stupid to be sporting. It’s sad that you think it would be.
Throwing it away FROM THE REF too? Ref booked him for something else but not throwing the ball away as he came to get it off him.
If he was my goalie, Id be made up he probably helped win the penalty shootout but if the ref had given him two yellow cards (never going to happen in a million years in a final I realise), I’d have laughed for ages.
Nob… but nob with a WC winners medal?
Yeah, that’s the trade-off. He has his medal, but he had already made two terrific saves (one before the end of extra time, and another penalty). I just think throwing the ball away at that stage was too much and fell too far outside the rules.
Morality and sportsmanship still has a place in the game. The mocking of Mbappe after the game shows his character anyway. The classless celebration too. A muppet of the highest order, but hey, if the edge gave his team the World Cup, who am I to argue?